Mood Detector vs Magical Rays
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Mood Detector
Analyze your current feelings by simply touching the screen. The app detects hundreds of moods, displaying them with matching emoji faces. It's a fun and easy way to explore your emotions, like a digital mood crystal ball.
- Detects hundreds of moods
- Analyzes touch input
- Displays matching emoji faces
- Easy to use sensor interface
- Fun for use with friends
- Can be used as a mood tracker
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The scanner can detect hundreds of different moods by the way you touch! Rub your finger across the scanner to analyze and detect your feelings. When the scanner has a sense of your energy your current feeling will appear like magic! It's a cool way to have your current mood detected! It works like a crystal ball! As you scan your finger across the sensor you will see Emoji faces that match your current emotion and personality. Every Emoji face will match the emotion that is about to be generated. Very easy to use compared to other sensor apps. You can press the screen like its a fingerprint reader or rub it like crazy, either way it will work. You can use multiple fingers, your thumb, or even the palm of your hand. This mood detector generator is fun to use with friends and becomes very addicting. Use every day like a horoscope or as a mood tracker so you can monitor your moods for a diary so you can see if you need to relax more. SAMPLE EMOTIONS: • Angry • Overjoyed • In Love • Deranged • Loving • Anxiety • Happy • Humor • Romantic • Afraid • Funny • Depressed • Scared • Mental • Stress • Relaxing • Loving DISCLAIMER: This app is intended for entertainment purposes only.
Magical Rays
Experience a calming and meditative light effect application. Touch the screen to interact with dynamic light rays and create ever-changing visual patterns for relaxation and zen healing.
- Interactive light ray attraction
- Dynamic and changing light patterns
- Zen and healing atmosphere
- Touch screen interaction
- Relaxing visual experience
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Relax zen healing. A light effect app provided by Digital Gene. When you touch the screen, you can attract the light ray. Please enjoy the ever-changing patterns of light ray.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is review sentiment: Magical Rays at 83% against Mood Detector's 19%. Magical Rays also leads on rating (4.6 vs 3.9) and in-app purchases (none vs 1). Mood Detector's advantage is update cadence (every 3 months vs every 8 months). On price, ads, device support and iOS requirement there is nothing between them.
Scored on Price · Rating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings · Update frequency · Ads · In-app purchases · Monetization · Best chart rank · Devices · Requires iOS
Both are free to download. Mood Detector sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. Magical Rays asks for nothing beyond the download.
Magical Rays holds the better App Store score, 4.6 against 3.9. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 45 and 206 respectively. Written reviews point the same way: 19% of Mood Detector's written reviews are positive against 83% of Magical Rays's.
Mood Detector ships an update every 3 months, Magical Rays every 8 months. The most recent releases landed on October 6, 2026 and October 11, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Mood Detector | Magical Rays |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 3.9 (45 ratings) | 4.6 (206 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 19.0% of reviews | 83.2% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 45 | 206 — better |
| Update frequency | Every 3 months — better | Every 8 months |
| Ads | Yes | Yes |
| In-app purchases | Yes | No — better |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases | Ad-supported — better |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod | iPhone, iPad, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 14.0 | 13.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 8 MB | 7 MB |
| Age rating | 12+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Digital Bananas, LLC | Plus Inc. (Japan) |
Customer experience
Mood Detector
Magical Rays
Bugs and requests
Mood Detector
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
Magical Rays
Reported bugs
4 issues- Ads are intrusive and cannot be removed
- Sound effects are unavoidable
- App quits unexpectedly when saving a photo
- Google ads banner is persistent and ruins the experience
Requested features
7 requests- Add option to slow down or speed up the game
- Add a color wheel for particle customization
- Add more music options
- Add option to change background color
- Add option to permanently remove ads
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- Add multi-finger interaction
- Add slo-mo button
In-app purchases
Mood Detector
- Remove Ads$0.99
Magical Rays
No in-app purchases
Questions
Is Mood Detector free?
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